Friday, September 28, 2007

September News

Lately I have been working on redesigning the site a bit, which includes
the addition of the new home page. I have added a new section, True Nature, in addition to the Nature gallery. My nature gallery tends toward the tranquil side of nature -
beautiful sunrises, macro shots of dragonflies. These are images I really enjoy seeking out and capturing.

But much of what I find is not so tranquil, it is a harsher aspect of nature. It may be one insect devouring another, a snakeskin being picked over by a bee, or just a heron with a fish in its mouth. Sometimes these images are even harder to capture than those in the Nature gallery, and I find them interesting and exciting in their own way.
Still, they seem incongruous displayed next to a quiet winter sunset, so
I have created a gallery for each. Please check back
for updates.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Welcome to The Patter!

For those who don't know, and this will include almost all of humankind, back in the 90's The Patter was a little humor magazine that I published. Published is probably too important a term, unless the term publishing means to you "a photocopy of a desktop published rag". In that case, the word 'publish' is right on the mark.

In any case, this was a little magazine that I wrote, illustrated and distributed to unsuspecting friends and family members for a time. After two or three years of 'The Patter', I stopped publishing 'The Patter' because I was certain something bigger was looming on the horizon. Something big that had to do with the internet. After more than a decade of intense research, I have determined that that 'something' is called 'blogging'. Now that 'blogs' have been popular for years, I am fairly certain that they are here to stay. Although by taking the step of starting this blog, I fully expect the entire blogging scene to collapse over night. So to the rest of the bloggers out there, I say, "I'm sorry".

Rather than being just a humor blog however, I intend for this incarnation of the Patter to focus a little on photography as well. Yes, right here in black and white, I will share some of my most embarrassing moments as a photographer. And maybe a few tips and tricks I've learned along the way.